Save $15 on Fitbit Versa 3 with Cyber Monday Fitbit deal

 Posted on October 22, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  598 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Looking for a Fitbit deal to get an early start on your New Year's resolution? Well, you've come to the right place, as the Fitbit Versa 3 currently has an impressive $50 discount. This takes the price down to just $214.87 at Amazon(opens in new tab). The Fitbit Versa 3 has a plethora of exciting features, including built-in GPS (perfect for tracking your runs!), Alexa capability, analytics on everything from heart rate to sleep and a great battery life. [Read More]

Shrinking Sky! Cloud Tops Dropping Closer to Earth, NASA Satellite Finds

 Posted on October 22, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  333 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

The sky is falling… sort of. Over the last 10 years, the height of clouds has been shrinking, according to new research. The time frame is short, but if future observations show that clouds are truly getting lower, it could have an important effect on global climate change. Clouds that are lower in the atmosphere would allow Earth to cool more efficiently, potentially offsetting some of the warming caused by greenhouse gases. [Read More]

Some People Never Forget a Face

 Posted on October 22, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  522 words  |  Arica Deslauriers

Some people claim to never forget a face. And the ability can prove to be socially awkward. A new study finds some people can remember faces of people they met years ago and only in passing. Others of us, of course, aren't blessed with that ability. In fact about 2 percent of the population have prosopagnosia, a condition characterized by great difficulty in recognizing faces. The "super-recognizers," as they're being called, excel at recalling faces and suggest that there is — as with many things — a broad spectrum of ability in this realm. [Read More]

Superpowerful 'oscillon' particles could have dominated the infant universe, then vanished

 Posted on October 22, 2022  |  5 minutes  |  947 words  |  Patria Henriques

A weird, super-powerful particle that's not truly a particle could have dominated the universe when it was just a second old, releasing a flood of ripples that permeated all of space-time. Called oscillons, they would have been so energetic their "ripples" could have unleashed so-called gravitational waves — those vibrations in the fabric of space-time that are generated when monster black holes slam into each other. Future experiments to detect these early-universe gravitational waves could give us insights into the most extreme conditions that the universe has ever encountered. [Read More]

The Holy Land: 7 Amazing Archaeological Finds

 Posted on October 22, 2022  |  5 minutes  |  923 words  |  Trudie Dory

Holy Land archaeologyThe "Holy Land" refers to modern-day Israel, the Palestinian Territories and, by some definitions, areas close to them. This part of the world is of great religious importance for Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In this gallery LiveScience takes a look at seven amazing archaeological discoveries made in the region, some very recently. The finds date from the Early Bronze Age (more than 4,000 years ago) up to the time the Byzantine Empire controlled the Holy Land, about 1,500 years ago. [Read More]

4,000-Year-Old Burial Revealed on Britain's 'Island of Druids'

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  5 minutes  |  879 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Archaeologists are excavating a 4,000-year-old burial mound on a British island linked in mythology to the mysterious order of magical priests known as the Druids. And although the burial mound is much older than the Druids — who lived about 2,000 years ago, if they existed at all — the excavations have cast new light on the ancient inhabitants of the island of Anglesey. Overlooking the Irish Sea from the northwest corner of Wales, Anglesey is dotted with numerous Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monuments. [Read More]

Aaron Hernandez's 'Severe' CTE: How Does It Progress So Quickly?

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  838 words  |  Patria Henriques

Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez had one of the most severe cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) ever seen in someone his age, according to his lawyer. But how did his condition progress so quickly? Hernandez was just 27 when he died from suicide earlier this year. A recent analysis of his brain by researchers at Boston University's CTE Center showed that Hernandez had "stage 3 out of 4" CTE, with stage 4 being the most severe. [Read More]

Dennis Sullivan, mathematician who united chaos theory and geometric spaces, wins prestigious Abel Prize

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  490 words  |  Fernande Dalal

American mathematician Dennis Sullivan has been awarded the 2022 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in math, for his contributions to the fields of topology and dynamical systems. According to a statement from The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA), which distributes the award each year along with a prize that's equivalent to about $864,000 ($7.5 million Norwegian kroner), Sullivan has been recognized "for his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects. [Read More]

Designer Drugs Fry Brain Like Ecstasy

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  699 words  |  Mittie Cheatwood

Some "designer drugs" may be in a legal gray area, but their actions on the brain are similar to those of illegal drugs and could be just as dangerous, new research suggests. "It's important to know what the drugs are doing in the brain so we can learn about long-term adverse effects, but it can also help to develop strategies for remediation of symptoms of overdose," study researcher Michael Baumann, of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told LiveScience. [Read More]

Halloween Too Scary for Some Kids, Study Finds

 Posted on October 21, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  644 words  |  Patria Henriques

It is the adults who should be afraid this Halloween. Not of ghouls and goblins, but of permanently scarring their children. In a recent study of six- and seven-year-olds in the Philadelphia area, Penn State psychologist Cindy Dell Clark found that most parents underestimate just how terrifying the holiday can be for young kids. Halloween has been scaring the heck out of kids of all ages for centuries. Two thousand years ago, Celts living in what is now the United Kingdom celebrated their new year at the end of October. [Read More]